Brighton hospital knife man spared prison

A man who was caught with a lock-knife outside a Brighton hospital has been spared a prison sentence.

Magistrates were told that it was the second time that unemployed Oliver Parsons, 30, of no fixed address, had been caught with a knife.

He was arrested outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Eastern Road, Brighton, on Tuesday 12 August.

He was arrested again in Crawley just over a week ago on Sunday 14 September.

At Crawley Magistrates’ Court he was sentenced to six weeks in jail suspended for 12 months for carrying a knife.

He was also ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs and an £80 victim surcharge to be deducted from his benefits.